Vulcano Dios – Mythologies (acrylic)

The Day. The Night. A human figure holding (creating ?) a huge volcano. This painting is about cosmogony, about mythologies. Each culture has its own explanation about the creation and the organisation of the world. Some are very poetic. I definitely love to read ancient civilizations mythologies. Precolombian cultures in particular. For exemple, the Incas believed that Manco Cápac, the legendary founder of the Inca’s dynasty, has been taken out of Titicaca lake by the sun god Inti. The Mayas thought the world was divided in three : the underworld (Xibalba) where dead people went, the earth (flat and square) and the heaven that was the kingdom of the gods. My painting is an symbolistic illustration of a fictional mythology, the human figure representing an imaginary god of volcanoes and fire.